Why blogging is important for prospective journalists

This week,students at UCLAN on the Ba Journalism course were invited to attend a meeting with members of the Periodicals Training Council (PTC)

The magazine route was aiming to get accreditation from the board,something that I am particularly interested in as that's the option I have picked for next year.

The course had great news as it received its accreditation and that means that BA Journalism is accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists, the Broadcast Journalism Training Council and the PTC.

It was interesting to talk to the members and one thing that came out was the importance of blogging for students.The panel said that not only did it show the writing abilities and the interests for potential employers but also how as potential journalists you are able to deal with comment and criticism.

With these comments in mind,it is interesting to read an article in this week's New York Times magazine by Emily Gould

She writes a very good piece on how it is not always easy to be on the receiving end of comments and how to deal with the line between privacy and public exposure.

Here is one piece but try and read the whole article

Some of my blog’s readers were my friends in real life, and even the ones who weren’t acted like friends when they posted comments or sent me e-mail. They criticized me sometimes, but kindly, the way you chide someone you know well. Some of them had blogs, too, and I read those and left my own comments. As nerdy and one-dimensional as my relationships with these people were, they were important to me. They made me feel like a part of some kind of community, and that made the giant city I lived in seem smaller and more manageable